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Category Archives: Disability
What is most important? Reflections on support arrangements for people who are intellectually disabled.
Today, 26th November, 2014, something unusual has happened. The national news of the day includes quite a lot of coverage of the abject failure of the health and social care system, and the government, to do what it was supposed … Continue reading
Re-framing the mess we’re in: ideology-action-structure complexes and coloniality.
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Re-framing the mess we’re in: ideology-action-structures and coloniality. This is a working paper in which I explore some ideas I’ve been working with. It takes a long and comprehensive view of where we are, how we…
Posted in coloniality, Disability, ecology, Equality, ideology, psychology
Tagged 21st Century malaise, coloniality, ecology, inequality, the mess we're in
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1,800 preventable deaths per year
The Confidential Inquiry into premature deaths of people with learning disabilities has just reported its findings. Extrapolated, they indicate 1,839 excess deaths per year of intellectually disabled people aged 4 and up, in England and Wales. Here are my workings: … Continue reading
Posted in Disability, Manchester, NHS
Tagged CIPOLD, extrapolation, intellectual disability, learning disability, premature deaths
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Shropshire, more films and the Mid-Staffs Scandal
Yes, this post will go all over the place, like I did this week….. A short midweek break at Bishop’s Castle, a quaint but real town in Shropshire. The Border country where Saxon and Welsh place names mix (along with … Continue reading
Posted in coloniality, Disability, everyday life, Film, Latin America, NHS
Tagged Argentina, coloniality, dementia, Latin America, mexico, NHS, Shropshire, the mess we're in
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A film and a concert. Communication and development. Jazz and decoloniality.
An evening with two cultural events last Thursday. Firstly we went to a film screening (indeed a UK premiere) at the Manchester Latin America and Spanish Film Festival, Una Vida sin Palabras (A Life without Words). It was a documentary … Continue reading
Posted in coloniality, Disability, Film, Jazz, Uncategorized
Tagged Deafness, Nicaragua, Sign language
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